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pc86 on April 9, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Waiting for a 1TB SSD below $1 per GB?

Isn't total data loss the default for a mechanical drive failure as well?

I don't think this should be counted as a major weakness of SSDs.

devcpp on April 9, 2013 [–]

First, no. HDD recovery is expensive but possible in many cases.

Secondly, no one say it should be counted as a weakness, the guy above was just pointing out that it's probably not a strength, as someone above claimed.

Retric on April 9, 2013 | [–]

Expensive SSD recovery is also an option.

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